AVP of Analytics & Data Science

University of Arizona

Tucson AZ

Current - Apr 2023

• Built and restructured a comprehensive data warehouse to serve as the university’s single source of truth, enabling more accurate and consistent reporting, analytics, and strategic planning across departments
• Implemented an advanced analytics framework to test and optimize interventions across the student lifecycle, driving measurable improvements in student outcomes, including retention and graduation rates
• Managed and inspired a cross-functional team of data engineers, analysts, and data scientists, fostering collaboration and innovation to deliver data-driven solutions that improved organizational decision-making

Director of Data Science & Growth

University of Maryland Global Campus

College Park MD

Apr 2023 - May 2022

• Reduced time spent in historical forecasting process from weeks to minutes through converting heavy human & excel based operations to auditable code
• Integrated real-time lead scoring model into Salesforce through rest API to apply logic for prospect outreach
• Facilitated data migration of old data model to leverage opportunity tracking inside Salesforce

Director of Data Science

Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester NH

May 2022 - July 2021

• Designed internal webpage for collecting over 5,000 Quality Assurance reviews of interactions between reps and students
• Drove strategy for analytic roadmap, built solutions in collaboration with external stakeholders and fostered implementation
• Led code reviews for data scientists & data engineers to ensure code quality and scalability

Senior Data Scientist

Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester NH

July 2021 - September 2020

• Led growth team to capitalize on opportunities in the student life cycle conduction over 800 experiments $1 billion in annual
• Created a Voice of Customer framework from the ground up collecting 300,000 pieces of student feedback to help support product optimization & ideation

Data Scientist

Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester NH

September 2020 - May 2016

• Identified bottlenecks within the admission process and proposed hiring 200 reps resulting in over $95,000,000 in incremental revenue
• Built forecasting process to help predict lead conversion, student success, & graduation using machine learning
• Developed internal R packages to perform analyses & automate reports to key business stake holders

Senior Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team Leader

United States Army

Fort Hood TX

January 2012 - June 2007

• Placed 2nd in Korea’s Team of the Year
• Top Secret / SCI - Security Clearance
• Render-safed / disposed of explosive, chemical, biological, nuclear and hazardous materials

Southern New Hampshire University

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics

Manchester NH

December 2016 - September 2013

Minor in Education

• Math Club President
• Competition Team Captain

Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal School

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist

Destin FL

October 2008